Joann Brennan is a photographic artist and professor of photography at the University of Colorado Denver.
Her artwork has been presented in exhibitions and publications nationally and internationally. In addition, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a Smithsonian Fellowship from the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in 2010.
She has taught photography at the University of Rhode Island, School of Art and Design at the State University of New York, and Princeton University.
Since joining the faculty of the College of Arts & Media (CAM) in 1998, she has focused her efforts on enhancing the success and well-being of students, faculty, and staff, in projects and initiatives at the course, program, college, campus, university and system level. She has served in a variety of leadership roles including; Interim CO-Dean of the College of Arts & Media, Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs at CU Denver, Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs at CU South Denver, Senior Associate Dean and Arts Bridge Director College of Arts & Media and Chair of the Visual Arts Department College of Arts & Media.
In 2006 and 2010 she was elected to the National Board of Directors for the Society for Photographic Education (SPE). In 2008, she led the highly successful SPE National Conference in Denver titled “Agents of Change: Art and Advocacy.”
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